The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Montpelier and Vicinity.


Washington
THE annual meeting of Company II, Cap
ital Guard, will be held at their armory to-
| morrow evening.
ARTHUR PARvENU had one leg badly in
! iured in coasting accident on Berlin side
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. L.. II. HEMENwAy of Manchester,
VT, with her daughter and son, is visiting
friends in Montpelier
THE ladies of Trinity church are $40
richer as a result of the " old-year dinner
at the vestry last Friday.
THE Passumpsic passenger depot at Wells
! River was wholly destroyed by fire yester-
day noon, with all its contents.
THREE persons were added to the mem
bership of Bethany church Sunday upon
confession of faith and one by letter.
The hand of fellowship was given to three
adults at the communion service at the
Baptist church on Sunday afternoon.
Hon. PAUL DILLINGHAM was in town on
Monday to attend the annual meeting of
the National Life Insurance Company.
DURING January, February and March
! the Sunday services at WrightSville will be
held only once month, the next being APP
pointed for January 23d
The ladies' sewing society of Christ
church will meet on Thursday afternoon at
two o'clock at the rectory Officers will be
elected for the coming year.
Miss MAMIE SLADER of Bellows Falls is in
Montpelier receiving course of instruc-
tion in the " art " of pipe organ playing, w.
A. Briggs being her teacher.
JAMES T. SABIN was the basso of the
Unitarian choir Sunday, in the absence of
b. NJ. Shepard, who spent the day at the
home of his parents in Marshfeld.
The post-ofiice address of Messrs. c.
Hancock aud l.. A. Stiles is now West Ber-
! lin. Mr.. Hancock began to read the WATCH
MAN in 1885, when a resident of Orange.
The fast express train north and the ac-
commodation train south were delayed
about three hours Saturday evening by a
slight accident to a freight trair near
| LaneSville.
The annual meeting of the Apollo Club,
for the election of officers and the trans
action of other important business, will be
held at their rooms Thursday evening,
January 6, at eight o'clock
THERE is to be an oyster-supper at Ma
goon's hall, Wright's Mills, Wednesday
evening, January II, the proceeds to be used
for the purchase of an organ for the church
All are invited. good time is assured
THE officers of Brooks Post, G.. A. r., for
1887 were installed last evening. The
Woman's Relief Corps participated in the
exercises and at the close refreshments
were served The occasion was very en-
joyable for all present
act to modify the postal money-order system
and the act to extend the free-delivery sys-
TEN OF the post-office department This
practically assures the free-delivery system
to Montpelier and Brattleboro.
MONTPELIER friends of Arthur NJ. Cheney
have been enjoying brief visit from him
during the past few days. Mr.. Cheney is
prosperous in his new position, and his ap-
pearance would indicate that he finds Mas
sachusetts life congenial. He returned to
that state this morning.
THE excellent address of Colonel Herbert
E. Hill of Boston, read before the Eighth
Vermont Volunteers and First Vermont
Cavalry, at their annual reunion in Mont
pelier last November, has been printed in
pamphlet form, and our thanks are due
Colonel Hill for copy of the same.
AT the regular meeting of Vermont
Lodge, No 2, |. y. o. f., last Wednesday
evening, the following officers were elected
to serve during the present year: ID. l..
Sanders, n. e.; |. l.. Robbins, V. c.; &.
w. Guernsey, Rec. Sec'y; f. W. Sherburne
Per. Sec'y; ID. W. Dudley, treasurer.
AT the town meeting it was voted to ex-
empt from taxation for ten years any new
manufacturing establishment or quarry
which may begin operation in Montpelier
during the three years next ensuing. There
, was but small attendance at the meeting
and no other business was transacted
The Baptist church held its annual meet
, ing on Thursday afternoon. After an eX.
celent covenant meeting, Miss Alice
: Roberts was elected clerk, George Guern'
sey treasurer and j. H. Burpee superin.
tendent of the Sunday-school, and the
various committees were elected nearly the
same as last year.
one of the future attractions at Blanch
ard Opera-houSe Will be Professor ID. NJ
BristOl's equescurriculum, " hich attracted
50 many thousands to the Globe theater il
Boston during four-weeks' engagement
there last winter. Twenty-one wonderfully
educated horses will appear upon the stage
without bride or rein.
? A CHARMING OPERA conducted by Mr.. f
, w. Bancroft, will soon be presented il
Blanchard Opera-hOuSe, under the auspices
of the Ladies' Library Guild. A rare musi
cal treat will be offered the people o
Montpelier and vicinity and an opportunity
given To aid the public library. Dates Wi
, be given AT an early day.
On complaint of G. l.. Roberts search war
Z. rants were issued yesterday morning ant
, Sheriifs Atherton and Tuttle " interviewed
= the saloon in the j. q. French block, re
Gently kept by j. NJ. Bell, but said to be a
$ present IN charge of A. j. Glysson, and til,
= Wells River freight depot to " see what they
could see" Their search, however, wa
$ unavailng.
5 "HUBBARDs MEADOW thermometer
registered twenty-four degrees below ger,
Monday morning and thirty below yester
i day morning. AT Planteld Monday morn
e ing the mercury stood at twenty-four be
| low; at Bethel, twenty; at Tunbridge
- twenty-four; at MiddeseX Center; twenty
five; at North Randolph, twenty; at Wes
), Fairlee, fourteen.
: LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelie
$ (Vt.) post-otlice January |, 1887
a Miss Maggie Cannon, Ed L Cation,
Y Miss Tucle MOriarty, Marshal Campbell
r Mrs. David Potter j. S David
Mrs. Edna Smith, Herbert Harres,
Clayton Brown, Henry r. Perkins
Parties applying for any OF the above mus
say advertised and give the date,
y GEORGE w. WING Postmaster.
q AN exceptionally fine specimen of tn
i cOnfectioner's art is seen in a cake made b.
|. Mrs William Glynn of Barre, formerly O
Montpelier, and won in a guessing mate
by A. NJ. Peck of Barre and q. E, Causti
r. of Montpelier, who" tied" The cake weigh
= about twelve pounds and is made to repre-
sent the front of the Masonic Temple i
y Kingston, Ontario, and the various design
), wrought in the sugar-cOating show plainl
o that it is the work of skillful hands.
i THE Montpelier grocers will close thei
stores at six o'clock on Tuesday and Frida
evenings from this date until April Isl
e The furniture stores will close at the sam
# hour every evening, except Saturdays, unit
- the LIST of April, and the stationery store
10 will close at eight o'clock on all but Satul
n day evenings. The WATCHMAN office wi
y be open as usual every evening and all neN
SlbSCTibprS "a well as tbpSa who come 4